Friday was just a typical day, nothing special, with the exception of the date; Friday the 13th... Now I would class myself as quite superstitious, but I was feeling quite optimistic. Not long into the day my newly purchased Lumix TZ8 digital camera hit the concrete from arms length, and my heart skipped a beat. The lens was zoomed out to 12x and I didn’t expect the camera to be in one piece as I looked towards the ground.
Luckily the camera came out in working condition, with a dent on the outer plastic part of the lens and with a few scrapes of paint missing. My first reaction was to test the camera, and all seemed well, the zoom was a little slower but it still worked. When it came to taking the memory card out of the camera, I realised where the most serious damage had taken place. The lock system for the battery and memory card compartment no longer worked, meaning that I had to prise open the compartment and then force it back closed.
Now this left me with a predicament; do I buy an upgraded DSLR so that I have more creative control, or just replace the camera with the Lumix TZ8, a camera that I know already works superbly?
My heart is talking me into making the more expensive DSLR purchase because of my love for photography, however my brain is telling me that buying a DSLR may be a waste of money, as I won’t have a lot of free time when I start studying Law in September. I have been told by many fellow students that Law requires a lot of commitment and involves heavy reading with a lot of long assignments, and this makes me a little uneasy on spending £400+ on a new camera, if I won’t even get time to get the most out of it.
So there is my dilemma, feel free to post any opinions below.
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